A woman who feared she was losing her eyesight after she woke up with “red swollen eyes glued together”, and tried several prescription treatments which did not work, has now found a miracle cure and has got her “quality of life back.” Katherine Hutchings, 59, a full-time carer for her son, and mum-of-three feared she was losing her eyesight when her eyelids began to itch and swell in spring 2018.
Despite trying remedies such as coconut oil and paracetamol, as well as being prescribed antibiotic cream by her GP, nothing seemed to improve her condition. Prescribed treatments even made Katherine’s eyelids worse – they made them “so painful” that she had to stop using them.
Katherine’s “bruised” eyelids, which felt like “they were being stabbed with sharp needles” on a day-to-day basis, made her not want to leave the house – she stopped going to the gym as she “couldn’t bear the stares”. Katherine’s “confidence plummeted” as she was “feeling years older than (she) was” and admits she “couldn’t even cry” to relieve her misery as the tears hurt her eyes.
